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Tyranny is an ever-present threat to civilisations. Here’s how Classical Greece and China dealt with it

For the classical Greeks, citizenship was a binding relationship of reciprocal duties and obligations owed to all other citizens. The law, they...

15.07.2025 20

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Shannon Brincat

Pope Francis’ visit to Timor-Leste is powerful and symbolic, but also political

Timor-Leste has had much to celebrate recently. August 30 marked 25 years since the Popular Consultation – or “The Referendum”, as many call it...

09.09.2024 9

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Are the far-left and far-right merging together? That’s what the ‘horseshoe theory’ of politics says, but it’s wrong

When most of us think about politics, we think of different views as sitting on a spectrum. Left wing is at one end, right wing at the other. We...

05.09.2024 2

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Shannon Brincat